Mosque of the Prophet Yunus

The Mosque of the Prophet Yunus was one of the two most prominent mounds of the Nineveh ruins, built to replace a Christian church in the city of Nineveh, Iraq. It was built where King Esarhaddon of Assyria had formerly built a palace and where Jonah was buried, and was for followers of Shia Islam. On 24 July 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a group meant to break the bonds between Sunnis and Shias, filled the mosque with explosives and destroyed it completely.